Except Regions Suffering from Famine

On the basis of the resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of October 4 of this year concerning measures to combat the concealment of arable land, it is prescribed that in urgent order the necessary number of land surveyors be placed at the disposal of commissions for verification of land areas attached to the food organs, both for the purpose of issuing conclusions and submitting plans, and for travel to localities for verification in natura of a small number of regions. The release shall not exceed 60% of the total number of land surveyors according to the indication of the land departments and for a period not exceeding one month. Likewise, district land settlement departments shall issue conclusions in accordance with existing boundary demarcation plans regarding the quantity of land holdings by volosts and villages according to the requirements of the food organs.

Pre-Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin

Written October 22, 1921

First published in 1933

in Lenin Miscellany XXIII

Printed from the typescript

completed and signed by V. I. Lenin

* See the present volume, document 424. Ed.